I agree with my colleague Solange Lefebvre.
Obviously, we start from the premise that the Parliament of Canada decided a long time ago to criminalize hate propaganda. Based on that fundamental intent, why confer special status on speech that would be hateful if it were not based on a religious text? Why do religious people get a free pass? In my opinion, it undermines the very idea of hate propaganda.
In exercising its parliamentary sovereignty, the Parliament of Canada could obviously decide to repeal the criminalization of hate propaganda. In the United States, hate propaganda is more or less allowed. That is a choice Parliament can make. To the extent that Canada has decided to penalize hate propaganda, it needs to be consistent. Let's not find a loophole that privileges one type of speech over another if it is otherwise hateful.